OVER 2,500 SHELLS, INCENDIARY BOMBS HIT ORASJE AREA, NE BOSNIA

MOSTAR, May 5 (Hina) - After this morning's failed attempts to break through HVO (Croatian Defence Council) lines in the Orasje area, Serb forces launched a fierce howitzer attack on civilian facilities in the area, even using forbidden incendiary projectiles such as napalm, the Bosnian Croat defence ministry said this afeternoon. Over 2,500 projectiles hit houses, churches, mills and cultural monuments in the area, seriously wounding one person and inflicting huge material damage. HVO troops are efficiently defending their positions, the source said. (hina) jn as 051723 MET may 95